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Patent GB-274723-A (GB)
Title: Advertising gramophone driven by an electric motor and acting automatically
IPC: G09F25/00
Filed: 1927-01-05
Abstract: 274,723. Naamlooze Vennootschap Reclamophoon - Maatschappij, and Drukker, J. Jan. 5, 1927. Driving; feed and return. mechanism.-In talking machines for advertising purposes of the kind in which a series of recorded announcements are successively reproduced, the machine being started for each announcement by the opening of a door and stopped automatically after reproduction of the announcement, the machine is electrically driven and a rotary drum driven intermittently and carrying conducting strips coacting with brushes connected with studs which are contacted by a finger on the sound box effects the stopping, the positioning of the parts for restarting, and, finally, the return of the sound box to starting position. The mandrel 9, Fig. 2, of the record cylinder is driven by a belt from an electric motor arranged below and carrying a governor, and the feed screw for the sound box is driven by gears 11, 12 from the mandrel. A spring finger 20 extending from the sound box carrier 14 is arranged to bear successively on a row of contacts 21 individually connected as shown to brushes a, b, c - - t, u, Figs. 8 and 9, bearing on a a drum 22 carrying conducting strips and shown developed in Fig. 8. Other brushes A, B - - F bearing on the drum 22 are connected as shown with the current mains 36 and the motor and stator windings of the motor. A solenoid 28 is arranged in the circuit from brush a to a transformer 35, and a switch 34 actuated by the opening of a door in the circuit from brush b to the transformer. Initially the drum is positioned with the generator line d contacting the brushes, and opening of the door closes switch 34 whereby the solenoid 28, Fig. 5, is excited and its core 26 moved against a spring 29 to turn a ratchet wheel 24 on the drum so as to move it to position B : circuits including connections M are thereby completed so that the machine is driven and reproduces an announcement, after which the finger 20 contacts the next stud and again excites the magnet 28 to turn the drum, whereupon the motor is stopped until the switch 34 is again closed by the opening of the door. After the last announcement, the subsequent movement of the drum by the magnet to the position l completes circuits through stud t<1>, brush t<1>, and the drum, whereby the motor is reversed and the soundbox is raised by a pivoted spring-controlled switch tongue and carried back along an upper track to starting position with the finger contacting stud u<1> which, through brush u and the drum, completes circuits including conductors M<1> for turning the drum to starting position and stops the motor.
Patent GB-285026-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cylinders for double acting two-stroke diesel engines
Inventor: HEINRICH BECKER
IPC: F02B75/02
Filed: 1928-01-04
Abstract: 285,026. Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Niirnberg Akt.-Ges. Feb. 9, 1927, [Convention date]. Cylinders receiving liquid fuel.-In a two - stroke - cycle double-acting engine the fuel valves g are placed in the walls of the parts f of the two - part cylinder heads.
Patent GB-1390882-A (GB)
Title: Beam let off motions for looms for weaving
IPC: D03D49/06
Filed: 1973-01-03
Abstract: 1390882 Let-off motions WILSON & LONG BOTTOM Ltd 28 Dec 1973 [3 Jan 1973] 312/73 Heading DIE A warp beam 1 is let off by a motor 2, torque control unit 3 and brake 4 and its tension is controlled by a feeler 18 that increases the speed of the motor as the diameter of the beam decreases and a pivoted back rest 8 which operates limit switches 17, 18 to vary the speed of the motor as the tension varies. Where more than one warp beam is used (Fig. 2, not shown) a spare warp beam (19) may be stored between the used beams. For Figure see next column
Patent GB-471460-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of insulating sized fibre plates
IPC: D21J1/08
Filed: 1937-01-07
Abstract: 471,460. Fibrous board. BASLER, H. Jan. 7, 1937, No. 554. [Class 96] In the preparation of insulating, sized fibre boards from waste obtained during the web working-up of sisal agave to hemp fibres, the long fibres are separated from the sisal agave leaving plant juice and a solid residue, the latter being treated to yield fibrous pulp to which is added the plant juice and the mixture formed into boards and dried. The boards are insulators of heat and sound, and are resistant to decay and to. termites. In an example, fibres are loosened from crushed leaves from which the plant juices have been collected. The solid residue is boiled, e.g. under pressure for 2-3 hours with approximately 10 per cent of the plant juice and the pulp comminuted in a Hollander, cast into plates and dried. Pressure may be applied to the plates while moist. Artificial resins or the like may be added to the pulp during grinding.
Patent GB-483701-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to slicing machines
IPC: B26D7/06
Filed: 1938-01-10
Abstract: 483,701. Slicing-machines. BERKEL & PARNALL'S SLICING MACHINE MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd. (Maatschappij van Berkel's Patent N.V.) Jan. 10, 1938, No. 665. [Class 28 (ii)] In a slicing-machine having a feed-mechanism actuated by a striker 22 which contacts with an adjustable abutment 23, the connection between the striker and the feedscrew 15 comprises large and small pulleys 21, 19 joined by a flexible member 20, the whole constituting a motion-magnifying gear. Preferably the pulley 21, associated with the striker, is positioned below the feed-screw. As shown, the member 20 is a steel band which is secured, at its ends, to the pulleys, and is kept taut by a torsion or other spring acting on the pulley 19. Alternatively, the band may be endless and anchored to each pulley ; or an endless chain meshing with sprocket pulleys may be used in which cases a return tension spring may be applied, in known manner, to the striker. The pawl 17 is carried by a lever 18 secured to the pulley 19. The pulleys and pawl mechanism are enclosed in a casing 25, and a limit stop 22a, for the striker, is provided.
Patent GB-1327881-A (GB)
Title: Coaxial tape cartridge
IPC: G11B23/093
Filed: 1971-01-06
Abstract: 1327881 Recording and playback NOVAR CORP 6 Jan 1971 [6 Jan 1970] 696/71 Heading G5R In a tape cartridge, coaxial reels 21, 22 are connected together by a spiral spring 66 having one end 67 fixed to a coupler 68 which mates with the hub 47 of reel 22, and one end 71 engaged in a notch 72 in a case 72 which is fixed, at 74, to the other reel 21. The spring thereby ensures that the tension in the tape (23, Fig. 2, not shown) is always maintained, since it tends to urge the reels in opposite directions, and yet, when tape is withdrawn from one reel as a consequence of operating the capstan/pinch roller drive system (41, 31), it serves also to rotate the other reel in the same direction to take up withdrawn tape. The end of the tape is detected with the aid of a foil (81) on the tape.
Patent GB-929139-A (GB)
Title: Band knife splitting machine
IPC: C14B1/14
Filed: 1962-01-08
Abstract: 929,139. Splitting-machines. MASCHINENFABRIK TURNER A.G. Jan. 8, 1962 [March 9, 1961], No. 719/62. Class 31(1). A band-knife splitting machine is provided with an hydraulic feeler system for controlling the adjustment of a gauge roller relatively to the band knife and hence the thickness of split. As shown, a gauge roller 3 is carried by a head 6 which is mounted on plates 7 so as to be pivotable a pre-selected amount by a feeler unit F comprising a spring-influenced piston 14 and a pin 15. Operating cylinders 11 are pivotally secured to side uprights 9 and the piston-rods 13 are pivotally secured to the plates 7. The suction side Z of the cylinders 11 is connected through conduit 28 to a conduit P connected to the delivery side of a pump. The inflow and outflow of oil from the compression side D of the cylinders 11 is controlled by the edges A, B of piston 14. The feeler unit is connected by conduit 29 to the pump and has a discharge conduit R to an oil tank serving the pump. The feeler unit is operable by an adjusting device V arranged on an upright 9, the device V comprising a screwed spindle 17 movable in a threaded piston 19 by means of a hand wheel 18, the piston being movable in a housing 20 by means of a manually-operable slide valve 25.
Patent GB-489152-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to power plants
IPC: B63H23/00
Filed: 1938-01-10
Abstract: 489,152. Fluid-pressure servomotorcontrol systems. BAUER, G. Jan. 10, 1938, No. 745. [Class 135] [Also in Group XXVI] A plant comprising a reciprocating engine 1 and an exhaust turbine 3 includes an electromagnetic coupling 8, 9 in the gearing transmission. If current fails in latter, a solenoid 21 is de-energized and a spring 20 forces down a piston 19. This allows oil to flow out of a pipe 22, and a piston 17 moves to the left causing a valve 14 to swing over, and the fluid entering the turbine port 15 to be led directly to exhaust 16. 22a is a valve to allow the escape of fluid which has leaked past the piston 19.
Patent GB-376652-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sharpeners for writing leads or the like
IPC: B43L23/08
Filed: 1932-01-11
Abstract: 376,652. Pencil sharpeners. MUSSGœLLER, F., 8, Schiffstrasse, Erlangen, Germany. Jan. 11, 1932, No. 769. [Class 146 (iii).] In a sharpener for writing leads &c. without wooden casings two cutters are provided, one a notched blade for preliminary treatment of the lead &c., and the other a smooth blade for the final sharpening. In the form shown in the Figure, two conical openings 1, 2 are provided and into each projects a cutter blade 3, 4. The blade 3 is notched so as to produce ridges on the lead, and the conical opening 1 has its point portion, above a line 10, of a smaller vertical angle than the rest, so that the point of the lead revolves freely. The blade 4 has a continuous edge. The two cutters may be arranged on one conical opening, or the two blades may be part of one cutter, or only the notched cutter may be present.
Patent GB-108268-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Projectiles.
Inventor: GRAHAM ANDREW WALTER
IPC: F42B12/64
Filed: 1917-01-16
Abstract: 108,268. Graham, A. W. Jan. 16, 1917. Projectiles; projectile fuses.-Consists of an anti-aircraft projectile having a number of passages in the front portion for containing " cartridges," and a corresponding number of spring- pressed firing-pins in the base, means being provided for releasing the pins successively so as to fire the cartridges in two or more volleys. In the construction shown, there is an outer series of cartridges 16, staggered with respect to an inner series 16'. Corresponding sets of firing-pins 25, 25<1> are normally held cocked by projections 23 on a disk 22, mounted on a sleeve 20. The sleeve is geared to a driving-spindle 31, controlled by timing-mechanism. During the flight of the projectile, at a predetermined time, the disk 22 has turned sufficiently to bring holes through it and through one set of projections 23 into alinement with one of the sets of firing-pins and thereby allow them to fire the corresponding cartridges. The other set of cartridges are similarly fired after a certain interval.
Patent GB-872176-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to dielectric heating equipment for welding thermoplastic sheet material
Inventor: STANLEY EDMUND CHRISTOPHER
IPC: B29C65/00
Filed: 1959-01-08
Abstract: 872,176. Scanning non-metallic sheet materials. RADIO HEATERS Ltd. Jan. 8, 1960 [Jan. 8, 1959], No. 777/59. Class 42 (1). A welding press comprising a movable work electrode 1, an operating device 9 and a linkage between the electrode and the operating device includes a pivotal connection about which the operating device can be pivoted to position it for operation from the front or from at least one of the two sides of the press. As shown the electrode 1 is connected to one end of a beam 3 pivoted at 4 and connected at 7 to rod 6. The operating pedal 9 is mounted on a link 8 which is pivoted at 10 on a mounting 11. The latter is rotatable about the rod 6 but is fixed against vertical movement by bearing 12 so that the operating pedal 9 can be swung from the front position shown in full lines to the side position 9a shown in broken lines.
Patent GB-680749-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in agricultural and like spraying equipment
IPC: A01G25/00
Filed: 1951-01-11
Abstract: 680,749. Crop sprayers. EVERS, C. E. St. J., and WALL, E. July 30, 1951 [Jan. 11, 1951], No. 789/51. Class 69 (iii). The outlet 13 of a pump 12 feeding, from a tank 10, one or more spray nozzle booms 18, is connected thereto through a two position, three-way cock 16 which, in one position, cuts off said supply and connects the booms to the pump intake 11 through a pipe 19, and in the other position connects the pump outlet to the booms and disconnects them from the pump intake. A pressure relief valve 14 is provided which, through a pipe 20, is connected back to the tank. The nozzles in the booms may have non-drip valves as described in Specification 680,750, and the relief valve is preferably of the form described in Specification 680,751.
Patent GB-554891-A (GB)
Title: Beater ejector for mixer
IPC: A47J43/044
Filed: 1942-01-20
Abstract: 554,891. Mixing-appliances. CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO. Jan. 20, 1942, No. 829. Convention date, Feb. 1, 1941. [Class 86] A portable household mixer unit is arranged so that movement of its carrying handle releases and ejects the beater from the unit. In the construction shown, in which a pair of beaters are provided, the beater shafts 31 are slotted at their ends 32 for driving engagement with pins 33 on spindles 13, 14. and are held in working position by split rings 34 in grooves 36 in the shafts snapping into complemental grooves 35 in the spindles. These spindles, which are driven by worm and wheel gearing from the main shaft of a motor in the mixer casing 11, are embraced by cup-shaped ejector members 38, 39 joined by a cross-piece 43, to which is secured the lower end of a slide 42. This slide is normally held in a raised position by a spring 50, but, when the handle 22 of the unit is swung into horizontal position, a trigger device 51 engages a pawl 48. pivoted at 49 to the slide, and forces the slide downwards so that the members 38, 39 engage collars 37 on the beater shafts 31, and force these shafts out of engagement with the spindles 13, 14. The trigger is re-set on movement of the handle back into vertical position. To prevent dough and batter mixtures from being carried upwardly along the spindles 31 and entering the spindle bearings the lower ends of the spindles 13, 14, which rotate in opposite directions, are provided with screw threads 57 of opposite leads located within but projecting outwards slightly from, confining. walls 58 in the ejector members 38, 39. The members 38, 39 are shaped to clear cup members 59 fixed on the spindles 13, 14 and co-acting with threaded bosses 61 on the casing 11 to serve as oilretaining means. Spiral grooves 62 on the spindles return oil to a reservoir surrounding the driving worm on the motor shaft.
Patent GB-119594-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Paper Making Machines.
Inventor: AITKEN WILLIAM ALEXANDER
IPC: D21F1/20
Filed: 1918-01-14
Abstract: 119,594. Aitken, W. A. Jan. 14, 1918. Suction apparatus; shaking-apparatus for wirecloths.-To allow the wire to be guided freely, the suction boxes B are mounted on carrier plates A<1>, A and are rocked about a centre C, the movement being limited by a pin D engaging a curved slot F.
Patent GB-702303-A (GB)
Title: Processes for operating electric smelting furnaces
IPC: C21C5/52
Filed: 1952-01-11
Abstract: 702,303. Charging furnaces. ELEKTROKEMISK AKTIESELSKAP. Jan. 11, 1952 [Jan. 15, 1951], No. 861/52. Class 51 (2) In the operation of electric smelting furnaces for the manufacture of carbides, ferro-alloys, pig iron &c. "fines" are separated from the charge material and the residue is charged immediately around the electrodes, the separated " fines " being charged at a more remote point, e.g. at the centre of a triangle formed by three vertical electrodes. The separated " fines constitute between 5 per cent-15 per cent of the charge weight and may include material continuously separated from the flue gases and returned to the furnace by a screw conveyer.
Patent GB-126370-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cylinder Construction for Internal Combustion Engines.
IPC: F02F1/04
Filed: 1917-01-18
Abstract: 126,370. Daimler Co., and Berriman, A. E. Jan. 18, 1917. Cylinders, construction of.-A cylinder barrel 1 with an integral end is secured to, and held in contact with, a head 3 of another metal by ferrules 5 which also form seatings for the valves 8. An axial bolt 7, the head of which overlaps the valve seating, may also be employed.
Patent GB-1450284-A (GB)
Title: Insecticidal chlorine-containing phosphonithionates
IPC: A01N57/06
Filed: 1974-01-09
Abstract: 1450284 Chlorine-containing phosphonothioate esters SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ BV 9 Jan 1974 00981/74 Heading C2P Novel phosphonate esters of the formula wherein each R is C 1 -C 4  alkyl are obtained by the following reactions wherein either (a) X=H and Y=halogen or (b) X=halogen and Y=H. In method (a) the base is preferably ammonia and the reaction is suitably carried out in ethanol as solvent while in method (b) the chloroacetophenone is suitably reacted with an alkali metal hydride (e.g. NaH) to generate the enolate anion which is then reacted with the phosphorus chloridate. The latter may be mixed with the hydride in a solvent; e.g. ether or dichloromethane, and the chloroacetophenone added slowly to generate the enolate anion in situ. The products are useful as soil insecticides and may be used as active ingredients in conventional insecticidal compositions. Analogous compounds of the formula in which X is 2,4-dichlorophenyl or 2,4,5-trichlorophenyl and R and R<SP>1</SP> are selected from methyl and ethyl are also prepared for comparative purposes. O - methyl ethyl phosporothiochloridate is obtained by reacting C 2 H 5 P(S)Cl 2  with a 10% molar excess of methanol and is purified by chromatography on silica gel.
Patent GB-191000565-A (GB)
IPC: F22D1/26
Abstract: 565. Eastwood, J. H. Jan. 8. [Cognate Application, 12,852/10.] Feed-water, heating.-A feed-water heating device which is adapted to form part of the water-circulating system when the feed is inactive consists of upstanding tubes connected to headers arranged in the down-take and side flues of equivalent parts of the boiler. The invention is described in connexion with a Lancashire boiler, but may be applied also to Cornish, Galloway, and other boilers. Multitubular devices are arranged against the outside walls of the side flues d and down-take a and consist of bottom headers g, which preferably rest in recesses in the flue walls connected by means of tubes u, which are curved over to conform to the shape of the flue tops, to top headers h provided with projecting knobs which rest against the boiler plates. The headers are built up of U-sections with horizontal flanges against which are bolted closing-plates. Water is supplied through pipes o at the outlet end of the flues, passes through the heaters in the side-flues, then through pipes r in the flame bed to the heaters in the down-take, and thence to the boiler, the water always encountering flue gases of increasing temperature. To enable the device to form part of the water-circulating system when the feed is inactive, the lower headers in the side flues are connected to the water space of the boiler by means of pipes p fitted with check valves q.
Patent HK-47697-A (HK)
Title: Data-processing device having a non-volatile electrically erasable and reprogrammable memory
Inventor: UGON MICHEL
IPC: G06F12/16
Filed: 1997-04-10
Abstract: Data processing device comprising at least one central data processing unit (2), and at least one non-volatile, erasable and electrically reprogrammable memory (5), at least under partial control of the processing unit. The device is characterized in that it comprises detection means (8) of a signal to request the reinitialization of the device's registers, controlling means (7) for inhibiting the application of at least one signal (Vpp, WE, EE) essential for programming the non-volatile memory (5) at least when said signal to request the reinitialisation (RAZ) of the device's registers has a level (RAZ1) sufficient to activate the reinitialisation process. A particularly interesting application of this device concerns monolithic and/or self-programmable microprocessors.
Patent HK-56490-A (HK)
Title: Process for producing ferromagnetic chromium dioxide
Inventor: OHLINGER MANFRED DR
IPC: C01G37/027
Filed: 1990-07-26
Abstract: Ferromagnetic chromium dioxide is prepared by converting oxides of trivalent and hexavalent chromium under superatmospheric pressure and at elevated temperatures in the presence of water and with the addition of an antimony compound as a modifier and, if required, further additives in an amount of not more than 15% by weight, by a method in which the antimony compound is present in the form of a water-soluble salt whose anion contains one or more organic molecular moieties which are oxidized in concentrated chromic acid.
Patent HK-66494-A (HK)
Title: Base with adjustable elements for a hinge wing
Inventor: FERRARI FRANCO
IPC: E05D5/02
Filed: 1994-07-07
Abstract: A base (10) comprises a first plate type element (11) to be secured to the piece of furniture and a second element (12) shaped to fit onto a hinge wing (13). The plate element (11) is generically shaped in the form of a cross with countersunk holes (14, 15) for screwing it onto the piece of furniture. Disposed between the holes is a seat (17) into which the second element (12) is screwed. The lower part of the second element (12) has a housing (19) into which the first element (11) fits with uniform transverse clearance, thereby advantageously enabling adjustment of the transversal position of the second element (12). <IMAGE>
Patent HU-T54812-A (HU)
Title: Method for making coloured contact lens with hydrophylic character
Inventor: NARDUCY KENNETH W
IPC: C08J7/043
Filed: 1988-11-21
Abstract: There is disclosed a method for making colored hydrophilic contact lenses. A contact lens constructed of hydrophilic polymer that is substantially devoid of the functional groups -COOH, -OH, -NH-R, wherein R is hydrogen or C1 to C8 alkyl, -NCO and epoxy is provided. At least a portion of the surface of the lens is coated with a color coat comprising at least one pigment, binding polymer having functional groups selected from at least one of -COOH, -OH, and -NH-R, wherein R is hydrogen or C1 to C8 alkyl, and an additional compound having at least two groups per molecule of -NCO. The coated lens is subjected to conditions which cause the color coat to adhere to the lens.
Patent HU-T35702-A (HU)
Title: Sole composition with reduced gum-content in the shoe-industry and process for its production
Inventor: ANDREJKOVICS PAL
IPC: C08F10/06
Filed: 1983-03-11
Abstract: Shoe soling compsns. with reduced rubber content are obtd. by replacing 5-10wt.% of the rubber component with rubber compatible atactic polypropylene. The prepn. of the mixt. and its processing is performed on internal mixers, rubber mills and vulcanising presses used in the rubber industry.